I became a consultant in 2004, it seems so long ago now and yet has flown by. One of the reasons I think arc⁴ has been so successful is because we move with the times; providing intelligence to... read more

It seems that the government has at last realised that there is a housing problem if not a housing crisis.
Moreover, it also seems that Ministers have recognised that local authorities and housing... read more

arc⁴ Director, Derek Long, is to address a prestigious Austrian national housing association conference on the English social housing crisis.
The only speaker based outside Austria and Germany, he... read more

It is over 18 months since Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum, in a deeply prescient piece, announced that the World could be only “two or three bad elections” away from the end of NATO, the EU... read more

• A big swing to M. Blanc and Mme Abstention
- A quarter of voters stayed at home (or went away – it’s a Bank Holiday today!)
- The French Left abstained in 1969, when George Pompidou (ironically,... read more